Catherine Lacey Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Catherine Lacey

Last week I read a book called OPEN THROAT by Henry Hoke (@EnnuiPerkins) and what you need to know is this book is narrated by a mountain lion and doesn’t have punctuation but is also somehow a page turner about desire and global warming. Absolutely feral. https://t.co/MMCibBjyfM

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Catherine Lacey

One of the main things I keep hearing from people who’ve read Biography of X has been— WAIT, Connie Converse was real??? And the answer is YES and @howardfishman has just published a wonderful biography of her. https://t.co/VcWjwWoVmO https://t.co/jc8LpVczAb

Catherine Lacey

This short, ecstatic book is about reading, writing, imagining, seeing, solitude, inner lives, and the strange power a writer possesses to silently insert herself into the minds of strangers.

Catherine Lacey

Riley’s work, though resonant in the present day—when love languages and attachment theory are common parlance—also has a timeless nuance. She slows her scenes down, like a record played at half speed, to reveal the hidden undertow beneath two people trying to reach each other.

Catherine Lacey

Blanchfield wrote each ­essay — about everything from abstraction to the children's game ­"sardines" — with the rule that he was not allowed any research, that he had to use himself, his memories, and his incomplete understandings as the sole source… it's an absolute thrill.

Catherine Lacey

This story collection… occupies a narrow sliver of the Venn diagram of Extremely Intelligent and Extremely Funny. These stories rant and argue and make wild, unprecedented leaps. Absolutely nothing here is what it first seems to be.

Catherine Lacey

Took the train in the wrong direction and didn’t notice for 20 min because this book is so good.

Catherine Lacey

I love Joy Williams & I love this book so I chose it for my very ad-hoc weirdass book club on Substack, The Irregular Book Club.

Catherine Lacey

This is a book about being in therapy; about being aware that you're in therapy; about dialogues in general, about love in general, and about the puzzles of love and dialogue that you attempt to solve in therapy. It's also about dying.